Yes, it will run on G4s and some G3s. I know a developer who has it running on his last gen G4 iBook, which is slower than the Mini, and it works fine. Apple would not release a new OS that cal only run on it's latest and greatest and can't even run on most of what it's selling today.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to pick on you, but I don't know where people get this stuff from.

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